To be kinder than a previous post (but the "old and busted" sentiment remains, hee hee!), brand name recognision is there:
SuSE is the name of a Linux distro. People know it's a Linux distro. Calling it "Novelle" makes it sound like it's not a Linux distro.
Novelle is a networking systeme. Networking, not a desktop environment. SuSE may be able to be used in a networking environment but it's not a network environment in itself like Novelle.
Corporate vanity failed. The world is on the way to being right again. It'll be better when Earthlink spins off its dialup service, renames it back to Mindspring, and hires Americans to take the tech calls since the reason why the two merged was for Earthlink [good brand, lousy cust service] to obtain the customer service skillz of Mindspring [unknown brand, JD Powers-praised cust service].
...Do like Canada has done: make drug companies marketing prescription drugs directly to the consumers illegal. As the advertising budget goes down, the R&D budget goes up. Simple!
Kim Jong-Il swears by it. Loudspeakers all over the countryside so you can't escape from the low voice telling you that you love your government and your government loves you (despite starving you), creating subliminal messages...
That's the pattern America surely wants to follow. Both here and there.
Wait, wasn't tech support (or someone posing as a tech claiming to support her) why we got to see even more embarassing pictures of her anorexic bod, plus got to learn Fred Durst's home phone number?
I've worked for a major ISP before and now schlep for a cellular provider. Calls from government wigs and celebs (rather, their right-hand people) are nothing new... you get the wheat with the chaff.
And yes, I do have a signed photo of Jack LaLanne because of my old tech support joint.
Another example not mentioned is the OJ Simpson mugshot photos that were on the cover of Time and Newsweek at the same time, where they were the same photo but one adjusted the contrast/gamma so it was darker, more sinister. Not exactly a touchup/photoshopping but still a modification done on purpose to skew interpretations.
I seem to recall some US guvmint propaganda as well where the picture showed a large group at a speech, denoting good turnout and agreement, yet when you looked closely you saw the same block of people three times. That's why they call it propaganda, right?
As well as the photos of present heads of state meeting favorably with Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden back in happier days 10-20 years earlier. I love it when that happens.
As a result of the early release, Episode III only managed to earn $380 million at the box office."...is quite the hyperbole. Ep3 earned less at the box office because of Jar-Jar Binks being in the first two movies. Oh, and the fact that I haven't seen Ep3 yet, so there's $8 right there.
Okay, this raises a question... If Lexmark only wants you to use your cartridge once, not refill, will they be doing the responsible thing and providing drop-off/return facilities so that Lexmark can get its cartridges back and refill them themselves (then charge the consumer full price again)?
The concept sucks at some levels (paying full price for refills) but yet the landfills will be happy and Lexmark will only look partially like bastards. Presently plenty of third-party recyclers exist, but by the one-use law they'd be put out of business.
The first thing most users will do after getting XP N is install WMP because they want to get sounds, video, etc. It was a nice idea to deconstruct the product but, well, just like with Internet Explorer being integrated circa Win98, you have to start with something before you get something else.
At one time that might have been a credible prediction -- Microsoft's search supplanted Yahoo for a bit. But considering that nothing can touch Google for effectiveness, unless Microsoft makes it search thing actually work (we heard rumblings of that happening twice before as I recall in the last 10 years) it's all saber rattling from the his donkey mount.
What is more likely to happen is that Microsoft will make a branded version of Google its search core, if it already doesn't 'coincidentally' swipe results like some search sites already do. If you can't lick 'em, rip 'em off [see: Apple desktop interface] and call your inspiration source out-of-date [see: MSFT's reaction to people who couldn't use Opera on Hotmail because "it isn't W3C compliant", IE pot-kettle huh?].
I'm not into a political weiner-waving contest here, but the title of your message kinda begs for arguement, as does that last sentence. Surprised this one is marked 1:Interesting instead of 0:Troll but that's just MHO.
When I read the first report about CodeRed (right here on/.) I laughed aloud -- not just because Microsoft got a pie in the face again, but because I knew that people would be calling their ISP (I work in dialup tech support) freaking out, when it was evident that this exploit would never see their non-NT machines. What really cracked me up was when I took a call from a customer who said the previous tech she'd talked to attributed the slowness of her computer to CodeRed instead of, say, that BonziBuddy she had running. Previous people have correctly stated that CodeRed (named after a soft drink) has garnered more headlines than Sircam, and I don't recall the media messing their pants when Magistr was rampant mere days earlier... and I've taken a hell of a lot more calls from people with Magistr in their mail than Sircam, regardless of statistics.
Another media mistake (beside the fin du temps talk about the power of CodeRed) is telling how smart this virus is. This was a benign test; had it been aimed at a canonical name instead of an IP, this could have been baaad. Smart is the Sircam virus, which mocks life more than most computer virii -- examples, it provides its own SMTP server so isn't reliant per se on one email program ['per se' because it still has to reference the address book created by M$ mail products, meaning if you never use Outlook/OE you don't have an address list it knows how to steal] and has the lifelife qualities of infant mortality [1 in 100 cases wipe the hard drive, thus can't spread] and survival of the fittest [in some cases, creating a second instance under a different name in a different location to bolster its continued existance] plus that cockroach-like quality of being run from the Recycle Bin. And it does evolve/mutate due to environment [mostly due to teaming up with other virii and virus checkers in attacking the virus make it unrecogniseable to the checker itself -- see this article].
And the irony stated by the author, about Microsoft riding to the rescue when it was their swiss-cheese product that caused the problem in the first place, made me smile. Where else can you buy a poison and its antidote in the same place? I wouldn't blame Microsoft for trying to put a positive spin on the solution rather than the cause -- they have other battles to fight [cough*XP*cough] which will take more than mere spin control.
MTP has been given a second C&D order, this one with a deadline for removal of the software. They were trying to keep stuff out of the media so they could negotiate with Apple, but so much for that...
(for the record, the reason why I don't watch CSI now is because they changed the broadcast day to one where I work nights)
I really like CSI but am the first in the room to scoff at some of the details. First that comes to mind is that their DNA lab takes 5 minutes to come up with results instead of 6 weeks. One thing that separates this show from others is that the personal elements you'd think would carry to the next episode (such as happens on E.R.) simply don't, like how the black guy on the show was gambling to pay for a judge's habit but we never hear about it again. If I wanted to watch a good show on forensic crimefighting, I'd be watching one of them shows on Discover (they have a couple good ones). The comparison has been made to Quincy in a few posts -- I dun know about you all, but at age 33 I know where I was when the show was first broadcast: in bed because it came on at 10pm and I was in elementary school. Which gives today's TV shows a little more leeway for copying or cheapening; most of the people here in this 'room' either weren't born or weren't awake in that timeframe, and watched the show in reruns if at all.
This stuff about XML, etc. doesn't matter because whatever MS embraces is the standard
Okay, see, that's odd you'd say that (and odder still, as I said in an earlier post, that Sun didn't say it): in the piece, Microsoft's flak says that Sun is trying to make their tools The Standard "because they say so"... but Microsoft tools ARE considered the standard (and by you, Yoshi, in the above quote) because They Say So. FHTWO.
Duh! My first clue (maybe not the first but the boldest of late) was when MS's DNS servers went down, and/. gave it a rating of "ho hum, so what if you can't get to their KB or Hotmail". Just because the company is a monopoly that is less than scrupulous in their practices doesn't mean that Joe Consumer (using Windoze, dialing MSN to get to their Hotmail email) doesn't have a use for them. Unfortunate, sure, but true.
I read the whole article (a rarity for me) and was laughing through most of it. I like the fact that Sun was able to respond to all questions calmly and lucidly, and in most cases Microsoft's premise in asking questions was completely uninformed so MS came off as buffoons for asking. Sun could have done a lot more "this is the pot calling the kettle black" replies, especially about proprietary formats, but Sun's a grown-up....:)
Enjoyed the interview and your responses. You've got your head on straight, no matter what The Man tried to do to you.:) And loved your quote,
The pop culture people look happy, but they aren't. They need music and icons to tell them who to be.
I graduated from HS in '86, and was the only person in my class with any interest in computers. I spent 5 hours a day on Apple//e's and the fact that our lab had one only Mac (256k, 2 3.5" drives, that's it) worked out because there was only one person who would sit down at it. My musical tastes were evolving out of metal and into synthpop. Girls were not something that I lacked time for, girls were something that lacked interest in me so I lacked time to be concerned about that disregard. Reading your tale reminded me of my own growing up, though you've gone farther with Linux than I ever got with that VIC=20 I was programming at home.:)
Nice auction, dog-slow site (/.'d?), and a few small errors in the Atari list -- and no rare 2600 carts beside Up'n'Down -- but swell nonetheless. But will he get 2.5k as he hopes?
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...okay, and doubling the customer base from 3mil to 6mil. There was that too. :)
To be kinder than a previous post (but the "old and busted" sentiment remains, hee hee!), brand name recognision is there:
SuSE is the name of a Linux distro. People know it's a Linux distro. Calling it "Novelle" makes it sound like it's not a Linux distro.
Novelle is a networking systeme. Networking, not a desktop environment. SuSE may be able to be used in a networking environment but it's not a network environment in itself like Novelle.
Corporate vanity failed. The world is on the way to being right again. It'll be better when Earthlink spins off its dialup service, renames it back to Mindspring, and hires Americans to take the tech calls since the reason why the two merged was for Earthlink [good brand, lousy cust service] to obtain the customer service skillz of Mindspring [unknown brand, JD Powers-praised cust service].
...Do like Canada has done: make drug companies marketing prescription drugs directly to the consumers illegal. As the advertising budget goes down, the R&D budget goes up. Simple!
Kim Jong-Il swears by it. Loudspeakers all over the countryside so you can't escape from the low voice telling you that you love your government and your government loves you (despite starving you), creating subliminal messages...
That's the pattern America surely wants to follow. Both here and there.
Wait, wasn't tech support (or someone posing as a tech claiming to support her) why we got to see even more embarassing pictures of her anorexic bod, plus got to learn Fred Durst's home phone number?
I've worked for a major ISP before and now schlep for a cellular provider. Calls from government wigs and celebs (rather, their right-hand people) are nothing new... you get the wheat with the chaff.
And yes, I do have a signed photo of Jack LaLanne because of my old tech support joint.
I gots shizzle all over my bathroom flizzle, yo, hep me Roto Rooter!
Another example not mentioned is the OJ Simpson mugshot photos that were on the cover of Time and Newsweek at the same time, where they were the same photo but one adjusted the contrast/gamma so it was darker, more sinister. Not exactly a touchup/photoshopping but still a modification done on purpose to skew interpretations.
I seem to recall some US guvmint propaganda as well where the picture showed a large group at a speech, denoting good turnout and agreement, yet when you looked closely you saw the same block of people three times. That's why they call it propaganda, right?
As well as the photos of present heads of state meeting favorably with Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden back in happier days 10-20 years earlier. I love it when that happens.
Okay, so I'm not the first one to think...
...is quite the hyperbole. Ep3 earned less at the box office because of Jar-Jar Binks being in the first two movies. Oh, and the fact that I haven't seen Ep3 yet, so there's $8 right there.
As a result of the early release, Episode III only managed to earn $380 million at the box office."
Okay, this raises a question... If Lexmark only wants you to use your cartridge once, not refill, will they be doing the responsible thing and providing drop-off/return facilities so that Lexmark can get its cartridges back and refill them themselves (then charge the consumer full price again)?
The concept sucks at some levels (paying full price for refills) but yet the landfills will be happy and Lexmark will only look partially like bastards. Presently plenty of third-party recyclers exist, but by the one-use law they'd be put out of business.
I got to wondering if traditional science fiction is just the opiate of the geek masses?
:)
Duh.
...will be Longhorn betas. Funny how that works out. :)
The first thing most users will do after getting XP N is install WMP because they want to get sounds, video, etc. It was a nice idea to deconstruct the product but, well, just like with Internet Explorer being integrated circa Win98, you have to start with something before you get something else.
At one time that might have been a credible prediction -- Microsoft's search supplanted Yahoo for a bit. But considering that nothing can touch Google for effectiveness, unless Microsoft makes it search thing actually work (we heard rumblings of that happening twice before as I recall in the last 10 years) it's all saber rattling from the his donkey mount.
What is more likely to happen is that Microsoft will make a branded version of Google its search core, if it already doesn't 'coincidentally' swipe results like some search sites already do. If you can't lick 'em, rip 'em off [see: Apple desktop interface] and call your inspiration source out-of-date [see: MSFT's reaction to people who couldn't use Opera on Hotmail because "it isn't W3C compliant", IE pot-kettle huh?].
Which do you mean, Dick Cheney or Colin Powell?
I'm not into a political weiner-waving contest here, but the title of your message kinda begs for arguement, as does that last sentence. Surprised this one is marked 1:Interesting instead of 0:Troll but that's just MHO.
When I read the first report about CodeRed (right here on /.) I laughed aloud -- not just because Microsoft got a pie in the face again, but because I knew that people would be calling their ISP (I work in dialup tech support) freaking out, when it was evident that this exploit would never see their non-NT machines. What really cracked me up was when I took a call from a customer who said the previous tech she'd talked to attributed the slowness of her computer to CodeRed instead of, say, that BonziBuddy she had running. Previous people have correctly stated that CodeRed (named after a soft drink) has garnered more headlines than Sircam, and I don't recall the media messing their pants when Magistr was rampant mere days earlier... and I've taken a hell of a lot more calls from people with Magistr in their mail than Sircam, regardless of statistics.
Another media mistake (beside the fin du temps talk about the power of CodeRed) is telling how smart this virus is. This was a benign test; had it been aimed at a canonical name instead of an IP, this could have been baaad. Smart is the Sircam virus, which mocks life more than most computer virii -- examples, it provides its own SMTP server so isn't reliant per se on one email program ['per se' because it still has to reference the address book created by M$ mail products, meaning if you never use Outlook/OE you don't have an address list it knows how to steal] and has the lifelife qualities of infant mortality [1 in 100 cases wipe the hard drive, thus can't spread] and survival of the fittest [in some cases, creating a second instance under a different name in a different location to bolster its continued existance] plus that cockroach-like quality of being run from the Recycle Bin. And it does evolve/mutate due to environment [mostly due to teaming up with other virii and virus checkers in attacking the virus make it unrecogniseable to the checker itself -- see this article].
And the irony stated by the author, about Microsoft riding to the rescue when it was their swiss-cheese product that caused the problem in the first place, made me smile. Where else can you buy a poison and its antidote in the same place? I wouldn't blame Microsoft for trying to put a positive spin on the solution rather than the cause -- they have other battles to fight [cough*XP*cough] which will take more than mere spin control.
MTP has been given a second C&D order, this one with a deadline for removal of the software. They were trying to keep stuff out of the media so they could negotiate with Apple, but so much for that...
I'll be really worried when they try to buy UnderNet...
I really like CSI but am the first in the room to scoff at some of the details. First that comes to mind is that their DNA lab takes 5 minutes to come up with results instead of 6 weeks. One thing that separates this show from others is that the personal elements you'd think would carry to the next episode (such as happens on E.R.) simply don't, like how the black guy on the show was gambling to pay for a judge's habit but we never hear about it again. If I wanted to watch a good show on forensic crimefighting, I'd be watching one of them shows on Discover (they have a couple good ones). The comparison has been made to Quincy in a few posts -- I dun know about you all, but at age 33 I know where I was when the show was first broadcast: in bed because it came on at 10pm and I was in elementary school. Which gives today's TV shows a little more leeway for copying or cheapening; most of the people here in this 'room' either weren't born or weren't awake in that timeframe, and watched the show in reruns if at all.
Okay, see, that's odd you'd say that (and odder still, as I said in an earlier post, that Sun didn't say it): in the piece, Microsoft's flak says that Sun is trying to make their tools The Standard "because they say so"... but Microsoft tools ARE considered the standard (and by you, Yoshi, in the above quote) because They Say So. FHTWO.
Duh! My first clue (maybe not the first but the boldest of late) was when MS's DNS servers went down, and /. gave it a rating of "ho hum, so what if you can't get to their KB or Hotmail". Just because the company is a monopoly that is less than scrupulous in their practices doesn't mean that Joe Consumer (using Windoze, dialing MSN to get to their Hotmail email) doesn't have a use for them. Unfortunate, sure, but true.
I read the whole article (a rarity for me) and was laughing through most of it. I like the fact that Sun was able to respond to all questions calmly and lucidly, and in most cases Microsoft's premise in asking questions was completely uninformed so MS came off as buffoons for asking. Sun could have done a lot more "this is the pot calling the kettle black" replies, especially about proprietary formats, but Sun's a grown-up.... :)
I graduated from HS in '86, and was the only person in my class with any interest in computers. I spent 5 hours a day on Apple //e's and the fact that our lab had one only Mac (256k, 2 3.5" drives, that's it) worked out because there was only one person who would sit down at it. My musical tastes were evolving out of metal and into synthpop. Girls were not something that I lacked time for, girls were something that lacked interest in me so I lacked time to be concerned about that disregard. Reading your tale reminded me of my own growing up, though you've gone farther with Linux than I ever got with that VIC=20 I was programming at home. :)
Nice auction, dog-slow site (/.'d?), and a few small errors in the Atari list -- and no rare 2600 carts beside Up'n'Down -- but swell nonetheless. But will he get 2.5k as he hopes?
And when I posted about fucker.com and fuckertown.com, I completely forgot that I have an email account with WhatTheFuck.com!